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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mahogany and 

 Circassian 



Lumber & Veneers 



^ The largest assortment of finest figured 

 Mahogany Logs, Lumber and Veneers in 

 the country can be found at the Chicago 

 plant of C. L. Willey. 



^ We are just in receipt of fifteen cars of 

 remarkably superior Circassian Walnut 

 Logs, large size, well-figured and of good 

 color, which are now being cut into 

 Veneers. 



^ A visit or correspondence from discrim- 

 inating buyers of all varieties of fine Im- 

 ported and Domestic Cabinet Woods in 

 Lumber and Veneer is solicited. 



^ You will not only find the Willey ware- 

 houses well stocked with a superb collec- 

 tion of Circassian, Mahogany, Vermilion, 

 Black Walnut and other fancy foreign 

 and domestic lumber and veneers, but 

 buyers are assured of prompt and pains- 

 taking service, and a quality of product 

 not usually obtainable. 



^ To visit the plant take Blue Island Ave. 

 car at the postoffice to Robey Street. 



C. L. WILLEY, Chicago 



Largest Fancy Wood Veneer 

 and Lumber producing plant in the zvorld 



Kefrlgorator Company (i£ Kenosha and establish a new schedule of freight 

 rates for the company between Kenosha and San Francisco. 



Formal announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Car- 

 penter of Menominee. Mich., of (he engagement of their daughter, Miss 

 Florence Lucella Carpenter, and Howard Stephenson, grandson of Senator 

 Isaac Stephenson, prominent lumberman of Marinette. The past genera- 

 tion of both families have been prominent In the lumbering Industry. 

 The date for the wedding has not been set. 



A suit has been brought in the Wisconsin Supreme Court to test the 

 validity of the purchase by the state of land in Oneida and Vilas counties 

 for a forest reserve. Attorney General W. C. Owen argued for the con- 

 stitutionality of the state providing for the purchase, appearing for the 

 slate against .Tohn .S. Donald, secretary of state, who, to test the validity 

 of the purchase, refused to sign an order for the $90,000 the land cost. 

 The state then brought mandamus to compel him to authorize payment of 

 llie money. 



A bulletin has been issued by the Wisconsin Industrial Commission 

 ilialing with Infections and their prevention, designed for the use of fore- 

 men, superintendents and wage-earners who are subject to the hazards of 

 modern industry. Reports show that in two years, ending September 1, 

 191.'!. nearly Ave per cent, or 721 accidents reported resulted in Infection. 



The Wisconsin Fruit Package Company of Crandon, which was recently 

 noted as being in bad financial ways and in whose affairs a committee 

 of business and laboring men took active interest, has filed a voluntary 

 petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court at Milwaukee. 

 The liabilities are scheduled at $65,588.22 and the assets at $36,025.57. 

 The plans of the committee were to get the creditors to take out stock in 

 amount of their claims and under new management run the plant and 

 pay off the claims. The liabilities are considerably more than first re- 

 ported. 



The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO >• 



The Chicago trade is continuing to mark time in line with most of 

 the other large hardwood centers of the country, and there does not 

 seem to be any notable change in the situation or any definite or par- 

 ticular weakening of market conditions. This does not mean that Chi- 

 <-ago lumbermen are particularly optimistic, but simply signifies the fact 

 that they have come to accept conditions as they are at their face value, 

 and are making their plans accordingly. 



The Chicago trade reports that it has no particular difficulty in picking 

 up mill stocks, but that there is no special tendency on the part of the 

 raillmen to shade their prices unduly. 



The price level which has been in evidence in Chicago for some little 

 time continues without any marked change one way or the other. That 

 there is a still further easing off in gum, a change barely perceptible, is 

 reported in a tew cases, but this does not mean that the wood has 

 attained any less desirable position than it has occupied for some months 

 back. 



Various consuming industries locally are not showing any astonishing 

 activity, and are continuing the policy of simply meeting their immediate 

 requirements in the matter of lumber. They do not offer any undue 

 encouragement as to trade after the first of the year, but it is reasonable 

 to suppose that with the opening of the new year's business a somewhat 

 increased activity will be felt. 



The lower grades cohtlnue to be rather the strong factor in the market 

 with the various woods holding their same relative position that they have 

 occupied for the last few months. 



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The last weeks of 191.3 show conditions practically the same as have 

 prevailed for the past six months. The wholesale market is quiet and 

 the retail dealers are chiefly concerned with inventory. There is little 

 (piestion that stock-taking will show yards and factory trade with 

 smaller supplies than ordinarily, and there are some wholesalers who 

 expect the buying trade to show some snap, even if only for a brief 

 period, w-ith the turn of the year. It is not a question of price that has 

 kept buyers out of the market as it is generally felt that prices have gone 

 as low as possible. That general business will show improvement by 

 spring, or sooner, is the opinion of nearly all and with any improvement 

 in demand the market will become firm and values higher. 



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The hardwood trade has shown the usual tendency to the quiet that 

 comes around holiday time. Inventories are about to be taken and buyers 

 are holding off until about the middle of next month. Business at a 

 number of yards is reported to be a little quieter than ordinarily at this 

 time, but this is just as true of other branches of the lumber trade. 

 Dealers are expecting to see a fair amount of improvement next month, 

 and most of them expect the coining year to run along about as the 

 present one has, without much change in prices from those ruling now. 



There is no particular activity to any especial hardwood at present. 



